The dyspeptic Henry Adams was not nice but not wrong when he described what now is named the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, as an "architectural infant asylum." The granite pile, which once housed the State, War and Navy departments, was, Harry S. Truman said, "the greatest monstrosity in America." Actually, today's premier monstrosity is the federal budget, which is Mick Mulvaney's headache as the new head of the Office of Management and Budget, which is hous